Academies & Institutes
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Presenter: Vickie Gill
Workshop Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration time: 8:30 am
Registration fee: $150 ($125 for Texas ASCD members)
Dates and Locations:
Please contact our office to schedule this institute at your location.Summary: Every year bright, energetic young teachers enter their classrooms armed with lesson plans and a sincere desire to improve the lives of their students. Unfortunately, an alarming percentage of these teachers quit the profession after the first year because they cannot get the kids to behave.
In this workshop, we will talk briefly about the behavior problems teachers face in a typical classroom, but we will spend far more time discussing why these students act this way-in other words, what does the student gain by disrupting a class and disrespecting a teacher? We will work together to create a few simple, yet all-inclusive classroom rules, focusing on clear and effective consequences and rewards. We will also take a look at the theory of Transactional Analysis to clarify the motivations behind negative behaviors, so that teachers can learn to handle disruptive students without inadvertently creating even more problems. Each teacher will leave with an individualized plan for implementing an effective behavior management program in his or her own classroom.
Vickie Gill is
the author of The Eleven
Commandments of Good Teaching, The Ten Commandments of Professionalism
for Teachers, and The Ten Students You'll Meet in Your Classroom,
all published by Corwin Press. She has taught English, Remedial
Reading, and Journalism in high schools in Central California and rural
Tennessee for the past 29 years. Vickie has won numerous teaching
awards and was a finalist for Tennessee State Teacher of the Year in
2000. Over her career, Vickie has specialized in working with
junior high and high school students who struggle with reading and
writing, as well as with students who have been labeled as "behavior
problems" or "at risk."
Who Should Attend: Administrators, Principals
and Classroom teachers
Register
by credit card.
To register by purchase order or a check, download a registration form (PDF) or call 1-800-717-2723 ext. 10 for assistance.
